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I SHOULD be glad upon this occafion 

 not to renew the remembrance of my want 

 then of a readier apprehenfion to attain 

 what I defired ; did I not imagine a formal 

 narrative of my fo flow a progrefs, might the 

 better ground fome particular perfons in 

 the fucceeding praftice. The foregoing bad 

 fuccefs therefore, kept me (if I may fo call 

 it) in great awe^ and laid an embargo on 

 that confidence in my future better fortune, 

 which my forward zeal might otherwife 

 have poflelTed me with ^ and I refted from 

 all further aftion of that kind for feveral 

 years. Thus three quarters vanquifhed, yet 

 wholly loth to yield my felf viftim to de- 

 fpair : I in the interval neglefted not entire- 

 ly, reflefting what poffibly might be the 

 phyfaal caufe of our difappointments. And 

 confidering I could lofe no great credit if I 

 failed again, and that I might lofe the lefs, 

 I kept my defigns as much as I could to my 

 felf private as could be, or where known: 

 Yet that, fuccefs would juftify the moft un- 

 promifing prefumption j I kept my inclina- 

 tion alive, for fome further trials, when 

 better reafon fliould invite me. But I had 

 to my coft already found, that there was no 



dired 



